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On 6/22/06, Ed Schofield <schofield@ftw.at> wrote:

On 22/06/2006, at 12:40 AM, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Actually I think using mat() (just an alias for the matrix
> constructor) is a bad way to do it. That mat() (and most others on
> that page) should probably be replaced with asmatrix() to avoid the

> copy.

Perhaps the 'mat' function should become an alias for 'asmatrix'.
I've thought this for a while.

That makes sense to me. As far as I know, asmatrix() defaults to calling the constructor if it can't snarf the memory of the object being passed in.

So, go on, shoot Ed and me down! :-)

--Bill